The phrase "a bad shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a work shift that was particularly difficult, unpleasant, or unproductive.
Example: "After working a bad shift last night, I felt exhausted and ready to collapse."
Alternatives: "a tough shift" or "a rough shift".
It's not a bad shift Warren Gatland has put in over the bridge.
Steve Ray, a retired firefighter from Alabama, said, "Those boys in New York, they had a bad shift".
Torres has explained his playing style this way: "When I have a bad shift, I want to get up for the next one".
If I've just come off a bad shift, it helps me forget everything … and I get the best morning's sleep ever.
Group polarization research also suggests that participation in a market will accentuate risk preferences so that good news produces a cautious shift in prices (i.e., towards lower prices) whereas bad news produces a risky shift (i.e., towards higher prices).
Germany, which had been grousing that this was a bad idea, shifted its position on Monday July 4th, making a similar pledge though it also pointed out that its budgetary problems would make finding the money difficult.
The dialogue, based on couples therapy ("I am bad, you love me, therefore you are bad"), shifts from knowing humor to something decidedly sinister as one dancer recounts the story of a rape, another of a murder.
"In a bad economy, the demographic shift has the potential to reinforce a socio-economic gap," says Todd Breyfogle, who oversaw the honors program at the University of Denver and is now director of seminars at the Aspen Institute.
It did not surprise me that one minute I would be blubbering tears of joy, the next, sobbing about the lack of positive parental role models in my family; her feet, her perfect little hands, her gurgle could shift a bad day into the best day ever.
Don't let a bad tip ruin your shift.
Pettitte said it seemed to take a bad hop, as Hairston shifted slightly to his left, and then back to his right.
